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[Lanefan]

The many games do have significant variations in Jargon... not to mention attributes and other abilities...

For example (going back to the late 1970s and 1981)

Entry	D&D	AD&D	Traveller (77)	RuneQuest (78)	Starships & Spacemen (78)	TFT (81)
The guy playing NPCs	Referee	Dungeon Master	Referee	Referee	Starmaster	Game Master
Atts	Strength Dexterity Constitution Intelligence Wisdom Charisma	Strength Dexterity Constitution Intelligence Wisdom Charisma	Strength Dexterity Endurance Intelligence Education Social St.	Strength Constitution Size Intelligence Power Dexterity Charisma	Marksmanship Intelligence Technical Sk. Contact Sk Psionic Charisma Str/Con/Hits Loyalty	Strength Dexterity IQ MA (move) AdjDex
Skills system?	No. Yes for Thief	Kind of. Yes for Th, Bard, Assassin	Yes, single digit	Yes, Percentile	No.	Talents - most boolean

For AD&D (and OD&D I think) the order should be Str-Int-Wis-Dex-Con-Cha.

The order you use here is WotC's.

 

[Nikosandros]

For AD&D (and OD&D I think) the order should be Str-Int-Wis-Dex-Con-Cha.

The order you use here is WotC's.

The switch happend with 2e, IIRC.

 

[deganawida]

No matter how hard I’ve tried over 30 years, I cannot get into FR. Something about it just hits the unconscious part of my mind in such a way as to actually make me nauseous every time that I have made a serious attempt. I don’t know what it is, and I don’t know if it would be the same with the gray box (never read it), but my mind rebels from it in a way that very few things have caused.

 

[pemerton]

Not so much an unpopular opinion as an unpopular taste: I want a game with the smart good stuff from class and level games like various chunks of D&D lineage, 13th Age, etc etc, and/or various versions of WHFRP, with cool magic of various sorts and multiple species of PCs and lots of room for adventure, but with very little combat. I want characters to go places, meet people, uncover secrets with minimal bloodshed - often, none. But designing such a game in which almost all the combat-related mechanics, advice, and setting elements are outright replaced by other things is apparently not a thing to do.

Torchbearer!

 

[pemerton]

The Paladin is just a Fighter/Cleric.

there is no difference between the cleric and paladin.

I've been saying this for years. The differences are purely mechanical, not archetypical.

 

[payn]

Paladin should have been a prestige class and not a full blown class at all.

 

[Reynard]

Paladin should have been a prestige class and not a full blown class at all.

I really wish they had kept prestige classes in 5e.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Paladin should have been a prestige class and not a full blown class at all.

Bards should have been placed in an appendix, and then we should have performed an appendectomy.

 

[Reynard]

In general, I think the few class with a lot of options for building archetypes through choices is a better model anyway.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I've been saying this for years. The differences are purely mechanical, not archetypical.

I'm not sure its quite that tidy, but I do wonder if human multiclassing was a thing in OD&D if the paladin would have ever happened (though, maybe, since its got a pretty clear specific model).